Malka Marom

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Malka Marom
Native name
Malka Marom Cohen
BornMalka Marom
1939
OccupationWriter, Journalist, Radio broadcaster, Folksinger, Dancer
NationalityCanadian/Israeli
Period1960s to present
Notable worksSulha, Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words , The Bite of the Big Apple
Website
malkamarom.com

Malka Marom is a Canadian writer, journalist, radio broadcaster, folksinger and dancer. She is best known for her music career as part of the folksinging duo Malka & Joso in the 1960s, her radio documentaries, and more recently her novel Sulha (1999) [1] and book Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words (2014).

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Early life

Born in Poland or Hungary, from Polish parents, Malka moved to Palestine when she was six weeks old. [2] During her teens Malka participated in the folk dancing and singing Dalia Festival, and was an actress in the first film made in Israel, A Village Tale which is housed in Stephen Spielberg's archives. She studied at the Seminar Lewinsky in Tel Aviv but left a year before graduation to marry and move to Canada. [3]

Career

After moving to Canada she formed half of the folksinging duo Malka and Joso with fellow singer Joso Spralja which is credited with bringing "ethnic" music to Canada for the first time. [4] Their first performance was in 1963 at the Lord Simcoe Hotel. They toured Canada, the US, and England and released four LPs for Capitol Records: Introducing Malka and Joso, Mostly Love Songs, Jewish Songs, and Malka and Joso – Folk Songs Around the World. They also hosted "A Wonderful World of Music" on the CBCTV in 1966. The two parted ways in 1967, each pursuing a solo career. [5] Malka also continued dancing, she danced in Charlotte de Neve & Garbut Roberts dance company’s recital From Ancient Roots.[ citation needed ]

Malka continued to work for CBC producing radio documentaries including: The Bite of the Big Apple (following the Broadway run of the play Kronberg: 1582 and winner of the ACTRA Award in 1977). [6] She also produced several other documentaries such as: The Bedouins, My Jerusalem, and the Holocaust. She hosted a weekly CBC Radio program called Songs of our People as well Mosaic on CityTV. [7] [8] She also did a series of shows profiling musicians, singers and poets; such as Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen [9]

In 1999 Malka published Sulha, a novel set in the Bedouin tents of the Sinai desert, Israel and Canada [10] that chronicles the story of an Israeli war widow who while grieving for her husband must decide whether to allow her son to serve in the same air force. [11]

More recently she published Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words, a narrative based on a series of interviews conducted with the singer over four decades [12] [13]

Work

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  4. ↑ Everett-Green, Robert (15 March 2000). "Sonny & Cher, 'Ethnic' style; Malka and Joso never tried passing as WASPs.; They still became international folk stars". The Globe and Mail.
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